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The voice of independent community pharmacy

The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) is the voice of independent community pharmacies across the UK with more than 6,000 members and a key provider of services to the pharmacy sector.

Fighting for independent pharmacy

The NPA is fighting for a properly funded, sustainable pharmacy network offering ever better services. We are a powerful voice for your pharmacy - showing how pharmacies benefting millions of patients every day. 

Our Save Our Pharmacies campaign has given greater profile than ever before to the crisis facing pharmacies and the need for a properly funded pharmacy network .

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Powerful advocacy for pharmacies

In the media, in politics and in the local and national structures of the NHS, the NPA is fighting every day for pharmacies:

  • Sustainable funding that properly supports front line care

  • A larger place supporting communities in their neighbourhood NHS

  •  Better opportunities to prevent disease and serve our millions of patients 

Our advocacy team

Our team brings together experience at the front line of pharmacy, politics and in the corridors of power.  We know politics, we know pharmacy, we know media and we know how decisions are made that affect every pharmacy and their funding. 

Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones

Director of External and Corporate Affairs

Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones

Director of External and Corporate Affairs

Gareth Jones is the NPA’s Director of External and Corporate Affairs. He is a pharmacist and leads the NPA’s work on policy and external engagement with the NHS, politicians, civil servants and other key stakeholders. He works with other pharmacy associations across Europe and globally via the World Pharmacy Council. He also leads the NPA’s corporate affairs function, supporting the NPA Board, made up entirely of frontline members, in setting the organisation’s direction. 

Jill Loader

Jill Loader

Adviser

Ben Russell

Ben Russell

Director of Communications and Marketing

Ben Russell

Ben Russell

Director of Communications and Marketing

Ben has experience in journalism, politics, the non-profit sector and local government. Prior to the NPA, he was a Political Correspondent for the Independent, led press relations for the Local Government Association and was Director of Communications at the Charities Aid Foundation, one of the largest charitable foundations in Europe and at the Rhodes Trust, home of the Rhodes Scholarship. 

Stephen Fishwick

Stephen Fishwick

Head of Communications

Stephen Fishwick

Stephen Fishwick

Head of Communications

Stephen Fishwick is Head of Communications at the NPA.

He has been prominent in NPA campaigns for fair funding, helping to collect record-breaking public petitions in the process.

Previously, Stephen worked as a PR consultant and in campaigning roles at a large healthcare charity, and also headed public engagement for an NHS trust.

Fun fact: Stephen once appeared on the professional stage, in a production of Olivier Twist.

Nick Parker-Sutton

Nick Parker-Sutton

Senior Press Officer

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